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 Weathered
Yearning for Simplicity

Adam McGavin

Snowflakes perch on the passerby’s eyelashes.
Winter’s prettier indoors; the air’s so cold out there
it hurts to breathe. Everything’s scribbled
with a steel crayon. My coloring book
has a lot of pages torn out, my memory hides them from me.

The rearview reveals an awkward, chubby boy.
He doesn’t start in little league,
or win over the girl with ribbons in her hair.
His life is not beautiful. But, he savors every second
of Saturday morning cartoons. And life is perfect.

I’d trade this car and every plastic card in my back pocket
for all the shoulder-top sunburns in the world.
Give me a drippy chocolate ice cream cone
and I’ll give you every penny in my bank account.
I used to hit fireflies with a whiffle ball bat,
now I’m out every other weekend
with a new girl who doesn’t want to know the real me,
watching the deep-freezer, bricks-all-around-me season.

I work too much to get a tan and sleep too much
to drink the tie-dyed milk from my cereal bowl
on weekend mornings, nestled in my footie PJs.
The brick buildings and the innocuous mannerisms
of suburbia, yellow on the roads tell us where to go.



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